Mr. Carlson Tong is Chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited.  

Mr .Tong is also an independent non-executive director of MTR Corporation Limited, Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited and the Hong Kong Investment Corporation Limited; and a director of the World Federation of Exchanges and the working committee chair. He is also a member of the International Advisory Council of National Financial Regulatory Administration and a member of the Hong Kong – Europe Business Council of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.

He was Chairman of KPMG China and Hong Kong from 2007 to 2011 and was Chairman of the Asia-Pacific region and a member of KPMG’s global board from 2009 to 2011.  He was also an independent non-executive director of Standard Chartered PLC from 2019 to 2024.

Mr. Tong has been actively involved in capital markets throughout his career, with deep expertise in corporate governance and regulatory compliance. He served as a member of the Main Board and Growth Enterprise Market Listing Committee of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited from 2002 to 2006, before becoming the chair from 2006 to 2008.  

Mr.Tong was appointed Chairman of the Securities and Futures Commission from 2012 to 2018.  He oversaw the launch of several major policy initiatives during his term, including the introduction of the landmark Stock Connect programme and the mutual recognition of funds between Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong.

Mr. Tong devotes his time to the local community and was very active in Hong Kong’s education and youth sectors. He was Chairman of the English Schools Foundation, the Hong Kong Sports Institute and the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong.

Mr. Tong is a Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He received the 2022 ICAEW Outstanding Achievement Award, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Business Administration by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, an honorary Doctor of Social Science by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, as well as an honorary Doctor of Social Sciences by the Education University of Hong Kong.

Mr. Tong was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star and the Gold Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in 2014 and 2019, respectively.

Ms Clara Chan was appointed as the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong Investment Corporation Limited in October 2023, leading the investment arm of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (“HKSAR”) Government. She brings over a decade of senior leadership experience investment management and financial stability, having served at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority since 2010 in roles including Chief Investment Officer (Private Markets) and Executive Director (Monetary Management).  One of the most quoted projects that Clara has led is the HKSAR Government’s investment in Cathay Pacific during COVID. Earlier in her career, she served different roles on policy formulation in the HKSAR Government covering home affairs, cross-boundary infrastructure and financial services. 

Clara is a Council member and the Audit Committee Chair of Lingnan University.  She is also a Board member of Karen Leung Foundation dedicated to work relating to gynaecological cancers.  Internationally, she served as co-chair of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Responsible Investing from 2023 to 2024.

A barrister admitted by the High Court of Hong Kong, Clara has been recognised for her leadership and influence in the finance industry. She received the Asia Industry Leadership Award of the 100 Women in Finance in 2016, was named by the Private Equity International to the global list of 40 under 40 in 2020, and was featured on the lists of Forbes Asia’s Power Businesswomen in 2024 and Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Asia in 2025.

Tammy Tam is the Publisher of the South China Morning Post, overseeing both editorial andbusiness strategy and operations to drive the publication’s development and commercialgrowth. She previously served as Editor-in-Chief from 2016 to 2025, having joined theSCMP in 2011.

Tammy is the Chairperson of the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong and a member of theWorld Editors Forum, Asia chapter. Prior to joining the SCMP, Tammy spent 20 years in thetelevision industry in leadership roles, managing editorial teams and corporate developmentstrategies.

Eugene Tang, the South China Morning Post’s Chief Development Officer, has spent more than three decades in financial journalism and in the business of real-time news.
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His career began in 1994 as a corporate news writer for The Edge weekly newspaper in his native Malaysia, followed by 14 years as a reporter, editor, bureau chief and team leader at Bloomberg News in Malaysia, Japan and China.

Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Eugene has spent more than a decade living in mainland China, covering everything from economic policies to financial markets and earthquakes in Beijing, Shanghai and in China’s far-flung provinces.

Prior to joining the SCMP, Eugene was Asia-Pacific Product Director at The Wall Street Journal’s publisher Dow Jones & Co., where he was responsible for the company’s Dow Jones Newswires real-time news and content licensing for the Factiva news database business.

At SCMP, Eugene’s career moved from Business Editor to Managing Editor, responsible for coverage of financial markets, banking and finance, property, technology, healthcare and climate change, before the latest move to Chief Development Officer.